you might be a gardener if....

lol at weeds! :)
I am definetly 'Ms. Can You Make It Live' at work. lol

I only have a 5 ft weed. LOL Getting ready to dig it up. Thought is was a sunflower. More like an orange dandelion.

.... When you yell at your DH for spraying weeds. Ended up being a purple passion flower.

.... When your neighbors give you their plants because they are killing them. Then they want them back after you bring them back to life. :)

.... When you go visiting and you end up weeding their garden. Wondered why I was getting daily invitations. LOL

.... When the cashier at the garden section of Lowes says (within earshot of DH) "Are you back again?!?!"

.... When your kids quit looking for you in the house and automatically open the door and scream MOOOOOM.

I could probably go on forever.

You are out in the yard before dawn wearing your pajamas and a flashlight to see what bud has opened since last night (at midnight when you were out in the yard in your pajamas with a flashlight etc.).

LOL kricket1370!

That last one is me to a tee. Not just the kids, everyone looks for me in the backyard, first. Even the mail man.

...if you call the garden center of a store in "the city", and they recognize your voice.

...the florist at the store where you work has your cell phone number, in case she has any plants that need to be rescued.

...you have ever had to explain seeds that fell out of your cigarette pack, and they were not the illegal variety.

...you go to work early to water the plants in the office, and they are not even yours.

Cheri'

...you buy cave hats with lights on them, so when you go out at night and hunt for snails you have both hands free.

if...you love the critters outside SO much and you hate to see anything wasted, so you neighbor catches you hurling leftover potatoes out your back door into the woods. *shakes head in shame* :P

You find yourself weeding the landscape beds at the auto shop while you are waiting for them to change the oil in your car.

ecobangie... I thought I was the only one who threw sprouting potatoes into the woods behind the house, LOL!

Terrific thread ! You know you're a gardener if you spend all daylight hours in the yard and all evening hours on Dave's Garden.

..if your small urban lot is filled with the 5' hill of wood chips the city delivered for free, plus the 6 bags and 2 trash cans of leaves you collected on the street while your neighbors thought you were crazy, plus the 6 bags of meal worm castings you got-also free- plus the 2 bags of llama poop your neighbor gave you, plus another neighbor's grass spread out to dry to use as mulch, .....

...if after moving into your old (1910) house that needed renovating you immediately started planning and working on the garden first...

...if you're out in the front yard with the flashlight at 10pm looking for snails and the folks walking by REALLY think you're crazy...

..here's a positive one: if you share your organic produce with the neighbors and they think it's wonderful!

You know you're a gardener if:

You go out to weed "a bit" before it gets hot and come back in at dark!

Your neighbors catch you digging by flashlight to get that "last lily" out to a Dave's Garden friend by morning mail!

"Mom's outside in the gardens" is a standard summer answer to any phone query!

I love this thread. Here's a few of my own:

You know you're a gardener when at the very end of ski season, after the lifts have closed but there's still enough snow to ski, you skin up( a way to "hike" up hill with your skis on to keep you from sliding back down) looking for broken ski poles and slalom gates because they make great stakes and fence posts.

You pull the "weeds" out on hiking trails.

You go 10 miles out of your way to stop at your house before you go to the dinner party you've been invited to, in order to pick a bouquet for your host.

You climb the mountain across the valley from your house, which has a summit view of your farm, and are disappointed that from that distance and elevation you can't see your sunflowers blooming! (Yeah, I think I ruined the hike for Dirk when I sprang that one on him).

You wonder if the "nature police" will catch you digging up woodland species on early spring hikes (clearly a no-no in Vermont)

Fingernails? What are those?

I had to laugh at all the tricks and habits that mirror my own. Boy, the non-gardening world just doesn't get it, does it?


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Most definitely NOT leisurlee. :)

...if you laughed your patootie off at all of these whilst your spouse looked at you like you have 3 heads. :)

You find yourself bored at a PTA meeting, so you go outside to pull the weeds in the school's landscaping...

Dirty knees & hands are expected when you run into the local hardware store on a Saturday to "get something quick"...

"that flowerlady" has become your new name in the neighborhood...

You know you are a gardener if the local police catch you
in the back alley at three in the morning checking out
your plants because you were away for a week and just
had to know how much everything had grown out there! -he
turned the spot lights on his car for me after he was sure
I wasn't up to no good.

and

You know you are a gardener when you give up your feet space
and lap to plants you picked up on vacation and still smile
knowing that you will be travelling for another 8 hours, won't be able to move...but you got some wonderful plants!!

Lilypon--I like that one! Shows true devotion to your pastime! What did you find on your trip???

I've done that everytime we go on a trip-usually find
a variety of fuschias we don't have locally-this trip
I brought home a hanging fuschia, 4 epiphylliums (they
scratch your legs!), a couple of episcias (chocolate soldiers) and a variegated African Violet-my family
thinks I am certifiable!

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You sound perfectly normal to me--a regual DG Gardener!

I eyed a gorgeous elephant ear as well-but my husband
would have tied me to the roof of the car-so I thought
I'd better not! :~) All of the above sound so familiar-
I've been bugged by neighbors who have seen a towel
wrapped around my head, housecoat on (at least) and a
hose and fish food in my hand-will never let me forget it!!

Lilypon, you just described a lot of us!

I am thankful that my neighbor is an epidendrum fanatic so we are out there watering and pouring on the miracle gro together in the am. She told me to keep the brugs in the backyard though because she doesen't even want to know......... one obsession is enough for her.

Don't tell her about Dave's then!

She is not the addictive type. Grows epis (lots) and a few cactus and 2 fushias. that is her limit. God knows I hve tried to pawn off plants on her but Nooooooo. Do I ever say no to an epi when she offers? Not on your life! Although anyone with a lawn in this climate has another addiction.

I'll have to look at the houses for sale in your neighborhood...and a working visa...oh well...

You know, obsession loves company... I guess that's why we're all on DG! LOL

If your hubby dreads riding in the car with you b/c every 1.3 mi you beg him to pull off the side of the road to see or better yet dig up something!!!! If your checkbook 'FOR' section is filled with the words plants or seed order. If your credit card statements are all for gardening related charges. If the UPS driver is a close, personal friend.

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If your hands are so dried and cracked that you have to put a huge glob of cocoa butter on them at night, and sleep in cotton gloves during the gardening season.

WOW! People I can identify with!!! But I bet your gardens are the envy of your neighborhoods!

But as my Dh says,"Don't give up your day job to become a hand model!"

You also might be a gardener if your hairdresser thinks you died in the spring! I am usually there like clockwork all year long-except planting season.

Davena

Your neighbor says "I feel so sorry for you - you're always in the yard" and you just smile

You have laid on your back on the ground at 10 pm with a flash camera to take a night picture of your first brug bloom (of course, this is the front yard across from the same neighbor about a week before she said she felt sorry for me)

You eat in the living room because your kitchen table has plants, tags, Priority Mail boxes, sorted seeds, unsorted seeds, pods, a trowel

Your better natured half is always pulling something out of the sink that was being soaked

You email a co-worker while on vacation to ask if it's been raining (just knowing that the newly planted daylilies need some extra water)

You get really excited when a co-worker mentions she has a lot of baby toads in her yard and do I want any.

Your DH no longer asks what are those moldy containers of water doing on the counter, he is so use to having tomato seeds soaking.

You feel as though you have lost your best friend when the seeds set out to dry were disposed of as "trash"

You pull in strangers going down the street to stop and admire a new flower.

You don't have time to read all of these!

When you do laundry, you check your pockets, not for money or kleenex, etc. but for SEEDS.

LOL Help! I feel as if I know all of you REALLY well!!!

Your kids always know where to find you--outside in the dirt!

you comb your hair and seeds fall out - this happened to me yesterday - YIKES!

lol, vic, that's a good one. If the carpet near my dining room table got wet, it would sprout a zillion flowers!

Sounds like a great idea Carena! :)

Great idea about seeding the carpet. With an Iowa winter approaching, I'm open to any way to extend my blooming season...LOL